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In the present collection you will find a large number of books representative of the cultivation and use of plants.

The books (some of which contain sections dedicated to animal husbandry, gardening, silviculture, phytopathology, etc.) include texts by Columella, a Roman author whose work was translated and widely read until the late …

This collection contains works ranging from large treatises and atlases to small monographs dedicated to the study and description of the human body morphologically and functionally, from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century, held largely in the CRAI Library of Medicine and Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

The astronomy collection examines the history of this discipline through its leading figures. We therefore find represented both the geocentric theory expounded by Ptlomy, and the heliocentric theory of modern astronomy, introduced by Copernicus, and taken up by Kepler, Galileo, Newton and others. There are also selected works from …